Somewhat Useful Facts Thread

[JimmyB76]

Profiles In Outrage

Tennessee Senator Bill Frist became the Senate Majority Leader after Trent Lott was driven from the position in 2002.
As of March 2007, Frist was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for having dumped millions of dollars worth of a company's stock, which was supposedly in a blind trust, two weeks before the company took a huge financial hit.
The company happened to he his family's Hospital Corporation of America.
Frist is perhaps best known as a physician whose method of performing a medical exam on a brain-dead woman is to watch her on videotape and declare from afar, "Looks good to me."


_{48 Days Left!}

[Senator]

Robots? Mini-Tanks? Early portable computers?

Bombs, but I like the Mini-Tank scenario.

Next, the Tsar Tank.



And a scale model of it to truly appreciate the design:

[Senator]

Bonus, the PKZ 2 helicopter

[1DeadlySAMURAI]

On the scale model pic the R in the Tsar 1917 sign is backwards like a kid wrote it. hehehe

[captain_obvious]

The GE G2 has an 8 mp sensor.

[JimmyB76]

yay recession!   
U.S. job losses worst since 1974 as downturn deepens

[Senator]

In the year 2000 we will be seeing theater from afar!



Also stroll around on water with personal balloons!



Eh, I guess 1 out of 2 ain't bad...

[JimmyB76]

PROFILES IN OUTRAGE: Linda Chavez

Linda Chavez was a high-ranking member of the American Federation of Teachers before before becoming  a union buster working as Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for the Reagan administration.

In 1986, she ran for Senate as a Republican in Maryland, but her campaign was derailed after she accused her opponent Barbara Mikulski of being gay.

Impressed by her "strong pull up the ladder" opposition to affirmative action, Dubya nominated her to be Secretary of Labor, but she was forced to withdraw when it became known that she had employed an illegal alien to clean for her.  She had publically criticized Zoe Baird during the "nannygate" appointment for the same thing in 1993.

Her old senate opponent Barbara Mikulski won re-election three times, went on to become the dean of woman senators, and one of only 11 senators to vote against both 1991 and 2002 authorizations of the use of force in Iraq.

Chavez is now a conservative commentator for Fox News.

[Kirk]

This is a very awesome case mod:

[Senator]

Lies!

P.S: Rockets away!

[Senator]

The singularity is coming!!!111

[limey BSc.]

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[JimmyB76]

Swiftboating

The aggressive smear campaign orchestrated by Karl Rove gave a new definition to the American political lexicon.
Swiftboating is defined as an attack on a public figure by a pseudo-independent group, secretly orchestrated by the opposing political force.
Dubya and Dick, who dodged the draft in Vietnam, find it particularly useful in using surrogates to attack the military sacrifices of their opponents.
In addition to John Kerry, other victims of pseudo right-wing groups doing the administration's bidding:

• Max Cleland, falsely accused of losing his three limbs in Vietnam when he drunkenly dropped a grenade; swiftboated as a traitorous defender of terrorists, a cut-and-runner.
• John McCain, portrayed as unstable due to Vietnam POW torture, as a "Manchurian candidate".
• John Murtha, swiftboated as a coward who didn't earn his Purple Hearts, also as a phony and liar.
• Cindy Sheehan, portrayed as an anti-Semite engaging in Stalinist agitprop.

_{40 Days Left!}

[Senator]

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[JimmyB76]

Credit Where Discredit Is Due

Two weeks prior to Dubya's decision to invade Iraq, George Tenet famously told the president that the case for nuclear weapons in Iraq was a "slam dunk".
Tenet resigned on June 3, 2004.

Centcom commander General Tommy Franks was responsible for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but showed little interest in Iraq's postwar stability.  Official U.S. Army historian Major Isaiah Wilson III concluded that Franks had no plan for the occupation of Iraq, all but insuring an insurgency and sectarian violence.
Franks resigned on July 7, 2003.

On May 23, 2003, Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, ordered the dissolution of the Iraqi army, domestic security services, and politics.  The decision put 720,000 Iraqi men out of work.
Bremer resigned on June 28, 2004.

On December 14, 2004, Dubya awarded Tenet, Franks, and Bremer each the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor an American can receive.


_{38 Days Left!}

[Senator]

Close one.

[JimmyB76]

Lie, Lay, Lie

Dubya fought in the courts the disclosure of the names of participants on Vice President Dick's energy panel.
Kenneth Lay, Enron's CEO, was among them.
Enron was the biggest financial supporter of Dubya's political carreer, and the Lay family donated $140,000 to Dubya's political campaigns in Texas and for the White House.
Enron employees gave Dubya a further $600,000 in political donations.
According to the Center for Public Integrity, this made Enron Dubya's top "career donor" - a distinction the company maintained until 2004.
Before that, Kenneth Lay had been a partner in Dubya's oil ventures and provided corporate jets to the Dubya campaign for its Florida contest.
Dubya, who referred to Lay as "Kenny Boy", nevertheless claimed he didn't get to "know" Lay until after he became governor, and then hardly at all.


_{35 Days Left!}

[Senator]

Oh, lasers. I likey.

Of cource, tactically speaking its not a very good idea being essentially a big, green beam that points right back at you but still... Riot mobs yielding lasers dude.

'tis the second millennium indeed.

[JimmyB76]

Osama Bin Here And Gone

IN December 2001, CIA paramilitary units and U.S. special forces had Osama Bin Laden trapped at a site in Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan, leaving him an escape route only through the snow-covered mountains to Pakistan.
When the CIA leader of the operation requested one battalion of U.S. Army Rangers to block Bin Laden's path, General Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. Central Command, refused, saying that "the Afghans themselves wanted to get into Tora Bora," and he didn't want to introduce "non-Afghan troops at that time."
Bin Laden escaped.


_{33 Days Left!}

[Senator]

Moore's law states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years.
It takes about 5 double years to reach 2007 from 1996, and you need about 5 "doublings" to reach 5000 from 300.

Totally logically concluding that there is a relationship then, we extrapolate that the Lara Croft of 2015 will be made of 80000 polygons.